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March 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's a total sham.
It is a 100% fraud, a giant sham.
And it has once again, ladies and gentlemen, exposed the media and the Democrat Party who are aligned on the side of ruin of the United States of America.
I'm talking about the CBO number that everybody started running with today before it had been officially released.
Steny Hoyer just told the media, hey, our health bill comes in at $940 billion with $110 billion in deficit reduction.
Bam!
Every media outlet ran with it.
They've been running with it all morning.
The only problem was the CBO had not officially released anything, and now they have.
Greetings.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Our telephone number, 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com early this morning.
Well, recently this morning, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, said, what's everybody talking about?
There has been no official release here for the CBO.
That was about an hour ago, maybe 45 minutes ago.
Well, the CBO has spoken, and all of these numbers are meaningless.
Let me read to you from the first page of the letter from Doug Elmendorf, the director of the CBO, to Pelosi.
Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, we have not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft because there isn't one yet.
The reconciliation proposal is the slaughter solution.
Whatever these amendments or changes are put, the CBO is saying we haven't seen that because nobody's seen that.
Therefore, writes Elmendorf, this estimate is preliminary pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as a further review and refinement of the budgetary projections.
So the numbers that have been put out today are meaningless.
They are only for the purposes of depressing everybody.
It's a giant PR scam run by Stenny Hoyer and Pelosi, the Democrats and Obama.
And it's designed to get everybody depressed, designed to get all the wavering Democrats in the House all giddy, as James Clyburn said.
But it's a fraud.
It's a sham.
There is absolutely nothing concrete in what the CBO has said.
They clearly say these are preliminary estimates because they haven't seen the guts of it.
Essentially, what they're doing here is simply redoing the Senate bill, which passed in December.
But the reconciliation portion, the slaughter solution, the deem and pass procedure, nobody has seen that.
It has yet to be posted.
Obama doesn't even know what's in his bill.
Did you, this Brett Baer interview, we're going to dissect this as the program unfolds today.
What a great, great job that Brett Baer did.
That was the first time since Obama has been elected that anybody anywhere in the media challenged him on anything that he has said.
And Obama clearly was uncomfortable with it.
Obama was on the defensive.
He was stuttering.
He was aimless.
He was angry.
This upstart young little journalist, who does he think he is?
Obama looked horrible in this thing.
He sounded horrible in this thing.
He didn't know what's in his bill, and he doesn't care.
He is right out of marks, folks.
The end justifies the means.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what's in there.
It doesn't matter about the process.
When he says he doesn't care about the process, it means the ends justify the means.
Washington's a mess anyway.
Who cares?
This is going to be a vote on health care reform, and we're going to get it.
And he told Brett Baer yesterday, this is not about my presidency.
This is about the people.
It is about his presidency, and the Politico is even reporting it today, confirming, ladies and gentlemen, exactly what I have been maintaining all along.
It's totally about his presidency.
It's totally about saving him, and that's how he's approaching wavering members, particularly most recently the Hispanic caucus.
It's about saving his presidency.
It's about making sure that he has a future as a president to get things done.
It's not about health care.
Now, we have, quite understandably here, a lot to do.
I am a little excited.
I'm speaking probably a little faster than I should because there's so much to say about what's going on.
And I'm probably trying to say too much too soon here.
But I don't want people to get sidetracked with the CBO show because ultimately, as has been demonstrated this morning, the CBO number is a distraction anyway.
It's designed to take our focus off what is really wrong with this bill, and that is everything.
The guts of this bill are why it needs to be opposed.
Not the CBO number, not the deficit number, not this or that.
It's all part of the same combination.
The one thing we don't know, well, there's several things that we don't know, even now from this preliminary report from the CBO, we don't know what tax increases are in this bill.
We can guess.
We know what's in the Senate bill, but we don't know what's yet going to be in the reconciliation package.
We don't know what spending cuts.
We know that they're double counting Medicare.
And the president was asked about this by Brett Baer last night.
He didn't even know what he's talking about when he answered that.
He got off a tangent about the closing a donut hole for senior citizens on the latest Medicare entitlement.
But he doesn't care.
But they're double counting.
And Brett Baer pointed this out.
Look, you can't say that you're taking $500 billion in Medicare and applying it to your new bill and say you've cut Medicare by $500 billion.
So if they're not cutting Medicare by $500 billion, then this whole $940 billion number CBO has is totally irrelevant because there's no $500 billion Medicare cut.
They're spending it somewhere else.
It's like you shifting money from one pocket to the other and saying you just cut your budget.
It's irresponsible.
It's silly.
We don't know a lot of the destruction.
We don't know how many doctors are going to, we don't know how many job losses are going to happen over this.
Now, Grover Norquist and a friend of his have a piece out today at National Review Online, David G. Turk.
And they say that the health care legislation will cost up to 700,000 jobs by 2019.
And that doesn't include the doctors and nurses who are probably going to opt out of this.
Stories about nurses wanting to quit hospitals around the country, hospitals trying to urge them not to quit.
Then we throw this on top of it.
I don't know what this means yet, because this just happened.
The National Council of La Raza just issued their opposition to the health care bill, saying the immigration restrictions, which disallow undocumented workers from buying coverage on the exchange with their own money, are too punitive to earn their support.
So the La Raza gang says this is not, this is cucinic all over.
This is not liberal enough for us.
There aren't enough transfer payments.
There aren't enough giveaways for our people.
Now, on the 21st, this Sunday, the immigration crowd, the illegal immigrants, are going to storm Washington, and they hope to have a quarter of a million people there on a big march and rally demanding illegal immigration amnesty on the day they're theoretically going to be voting on the health care bill.
And I still don't think they're going to be voting on the health care bill because I don't think they have the votes and they don't have any actual numbers that they can take to anybody with the CBO.
This is clearly preliminary.
Every day this day, I've told you, has been about dispiriting you, depressing you, making you think it's a lost cause, making you give up, making you think there's no way we can fight this.
Today, they just doubled down on that with the phony fraud of the CBO number.
But they're no closer than they were.
And that's what all this means.
All of this trickery, all this chicanery, all of this behind-the-scenes stuff, the effort to create momentum where it doesn't exist.
They're asking the president to delay his departure Sunday to later in the week.
And the reason they're doing that is because they know they don't have the votes on Sunday or by Sunday, and it's really going to complicate things now because what's happened is that everybody now knows that the CBO number that came out today is fraudulent.
Everybody knows that what went on this morning now is meaningless.
And more and more people are going to know it as the day goes on.
And so in the old days, before there was an alternative media, before there was an internet, before there were independent people to examine and analyze the lies, the deceptions, and the frauds coming out of the Democrat Party, the White House, and the American left, this stuff would have stood.
There would not have been any alternate news.
We'd have been stuck with $940 billion, and they would have their vote.
But they have been exposed again in a giant scam, a giant sham.
Exposed the media, exposed the Democrat Party, who are joined on the side of ruin of the United States of America.
Let me read to you again from the cover letter from Doug Elmendorf at CBO to Pelosi.
Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, the agency has not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft.
This estimate is therefore preliminary pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as further review and refinement of the budgetary projection.
In other words, whatever numbers you see in the following pages don't mean anything.
This is a wild guess, and it comes on the heels of Elmendorf saying, we are overworked.
And my heart bleeds.
We're overworked.
These guys keep sending stuff to us.
We're working 100-hour weeks here trying to get new scores for them.
The numbers are all over the place.
This is a fire drill.
We have utter chaos happening.
There is no organization.
There is no leadership.
The Democrats, trust me on this, contrary to the image that the media and the Democrats have put forth today, are in disarray.
Buck up.
You keep calling.
There is no reason to stop the intensity.
This is going to go on and on and on.
And even, folks, Fred Barnes has a piece.
He's going to be sharing it with you as the program unfolds today, a pretty good piece of the Weekly Standard.
Even if it passes, it's nowhere near over.
This is going to go on and on and on for years and years and years because nobody in this country wants it.
The effort is going to be focused on repealing it and stopping it, rolling it back or what have you.
Obama has succeeded in his primary objective, and that is dividing the people of this country.
I mean, even David Brooks, and I hate quoting Brooks here, forgive me on this, but even David Brooks in a blog at the New York Times, you got a little chat going back and forth with Gail Collins on the editorial page.
He thinks it's asinine for the Democrats to sign this.
He thinks it's asinine to use the slaughter solution.
Chris Matthews thinks it's not a good idea to use the slaughter solution.
Mr. Leg Tingle himself, there are a lot of people that don't like what's happening here.
Even Lawrence O'Donnell, it's a tax increase.
They don't have the votes.
This is illegal.
We've got the soundbites coming up here.
They are in total disarray and don't think the opposite.
Don't think they're a well-oiled machine heading down the tracks.
If they were a well-oiled machine, this would have been passed last August.
Buck up, folks.
Hang in there and be tough.
We'll be right back.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, it's Rushland Boy.
And this, the one and only excellence in broadcasting network.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, we know that the CBO numbers this morning that Stenny Hoyer put out were fake, were fraudulent.
The CBO had not released anything when he put the numbers up.
The CBO then did put their PDF file out.
They released everything, the letter to Pelosi.
We know that all this is just a joke because it's preliminary.
There's nothing official because there's no reconciliation bill to score.
That's where we are.
But again, I want to stress, let's not get caught up in the CBO aspect of this.
I remember back in the 1995 budget bill between Newt Gengrich and Bill Clinton.
They got caught up in CBO numbers back then, what 10-year deficit projections were going to be.
And that wasn't the issue.
Clinton was happy for our side to get lost and caught up discussing CBO.
The point of CBO and its relevance this morning is that we're being scammed.
The numbers are irrelevant.
The fact of the matter is, the number doesn't matter.
There's no way you can double count $500 billion in Medicare and save any money.
There's no way you can register 30 million new people, give insurance, and save money.
There's no way you can reduce the deficit.
We have a $1.6 trillion deficit this year.
We're going to spend another $1 trillion that we don't have.
There's no way this does anything the CBO says.
So the importance of CBO is it's just another lie.
It's just another scam orchestrated by the Democrats and their buddies in the media.
There's some people talking about also, you know, if we can get rid of Korn Hasker, Kornhasker kickback and get rid of the Louisiana purchase, some of this other stuff, maybe we could have something to talk about.
No, no, no.
There are no fixes to this bill.
We need to remain the party of no, hell no.
There are no fixes to this bill.
There's no streamlining it.
There's no tweaking it.
There's just destroying it.
And then if for whatever reforms are necessary, get started with the way Mitch Daniels is doing it in Indiana.
Heritage has a bunch of great ideas.
We've talked about them.
There's a poll out there.
Group used to be called the Independent Women's Forum.
Now it's IWV, and I'm having the middle block on what the V stands for.
But they published the results of their poll Monday in the Wall Street Journal.
And as much, and this is very interesting data in their poll, as much as people really oppose the corruption of all of this, as much as people oppose the process of how the Democrats are getting done.
The thing that really irks people and thus should be the focus of any continuing opposition to it is the underlying approach to the whole thing, the fundamental framework of it, the purpose of it.
It's not healthcare.
The purpose is the growth of government, the elimination or the, well, we'll go that far, but the attack on liberty and freedom, the ability with one bill to regulate every aspect of human life under the auspices that it has an impact on the cost of health care.
Obama doesn't even care what's in this.
You'll hear this if you didn't see the Brett Baer interview.
Even if you did, you could see by his answers, he didn't care what's in this.
He's speaking purely philosophically about we need to ensure people give them health care.
He was talking about, this bill is not about reforming the insurance industry.
This bill is about destroying the insurance industry.
You know, and it's just point here is people do not want the mandates.
People do not want the federal government demanding, requiring by force of law that they have to buy anything.
Oh, and do you know, we have learned something.
12,000 brand new IRS agents will be hired.
12, why?
Because the IRS is responsible for the enforcement of the mandates that you either buy insurance or pay a fine if you don't.
12,000 new IRS agents in a health care reform bill.
It's that kind of stuff when people learn about it, they want no part of.
They don't like the penalties.
They don't like the fines, the possibility of going to jail if you don't buy the insurance mandated by the government, which they also don't like.
They don't like the massive government.
They don't like the Marxism in the bill.
They don't like the socialism in the bill.
They don't like the loss of freedom in the bill.
They're sophisticated.
The American people understand what this is about, and that's why they oppose it in increasingly large numbers.
And they're not running around saying, ah, CBO number, the CBO number.
They're not talking about the cost of the deficit as a related CBO number.
They're talking about the cost of the whole thing as it relates to bankruptcy for their children and their grandchildren.
The people of this country know we can't afford this, no matter what the CBO says.
The CBO came out and said it's a trillion and a half dollars.
So what?
We know it's going to be more than $940 billion.
We know that there's not one government entitlement that's ever cost less than projected.
We know that there's not one government entitlement that's ever worked.
As advertised, the American people are fully aware of what they face in this, and it's the substance, the underlying foundation of this bill that they oppose.
All of these unaffordable entitlements, the loss of choice, the cuts to Medicare advantage.
These are the things that people know in this bill they do not like and want no part of.
So go ahead and focus on the CBO number if you want, but focus on the fact that it's nothing more than the latest element of fraud and scam that is part of the sales job of this whole thing.
See, the media ropes you in.
We've all been breathless, waiting for what?
Two things this week.
The reconciliation text, the actual words, what the reconciliation bill, what are the fixes to the Senate bill?
We still haven't seen that.
And the CBO number.
Oh, yes, we're waiting on the latest CBO score.
We can't move forward till we get that.
So the media breathlessly, in their horse race reporting mentality, breathlessly waits for the CBO number.
And before the CBO even puts it out, Stenny Hoyer comes out, says what he says.
They run with it.
Oh, wow.
They get Juan Williams on Fox.
Oh, this is great for Obama.
This is going to really put people over the edge.
This is exactly what they want.
They go get Klyburn.
Clyburn's, oh, there's a members are giddy over this.
And they get an hour and a half of this.
Maybe two hours out of this.
And then all of a sudden, Paul Ryan said, wait a minute, there is no official release here.
Stenny Hoyer just making it up.
Stenny Hoyer is essentially the big editor today for the state control media.
So then we get the CBO numbers, and then we get the cover letter, which basically says this is a preliminary estimate.
It's like the weather forecast.
It's a wild guess.
Al Gore and the people at East Anglia may as well have put this CBO process together.
It's just as fraudulent, not because of the CBO people.
CBO people don't have anything concrete to work with.
They're being asked to calculate estimates.
So what's happened?
We may as well get Michael Mann from Penn State and Phil Jones from East Anglia and James Hansen at NASA and Al Gore, put them over at CBO and have them write the report.
That's essentially what's happened here.
The same hoax that gave us the non-existent man-made global warming is now perpetrating itself in the CBO because of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Stenny Hoyer, and the rest.
It's a hoax.
This number is a hoax.
It's not real because what they're going to be voting on isn't even real yet.
It doesn't exist.
Nobody has seen it.
It was supposed to be posted last night.
Obama said, you'll know what's in it when it's posted.
I'll know what's in it when it's posted.
He doesn't know what's in it.
He doesn't care what's in it.
It's going to be up there for 72 hours.
No, it won't be.
If they put it up tonight or tomorrow and the vote is Sunday, it's not going to be up for 72 hours.
They're going to limit Republicans to 30 minutes of debate on Parker Griffith's idea of having a vote on not using the slaughter solution.
Just 30 minutes.
Wipe that out.
They're in trouble.
They don't have the votes here.
And it is patternly obvious to anybody with an objective eye looking at this.
The Democrats just this morning have lost a vote for Obama's health care plan.
They have lost a man who was going to vote yes, who has switched his mind to no.
Now, in the face of all of this PR news today, the CBO numbers, oh, it's great.
Everybody's getting ooh, it's going to pass.
Everybody's going to like it.
Everybody's going to vote for it.
They lost another vote.
Stick with the EIB Network for the truth.
This is from the National Journal, the Hotline Bunch.
A key House Democrat has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee on which he sits.
This is Representative Michael R. Curry, a Democrat from New York, a sophomore Democrat.
He had a tougher-than-expected re-election bid in 08.
He told the Democrat caucus he's going to vote against the bill.
He now becomes the third member, along with Joe Donnelly, Democrat Indiana, and Luis Gutierrez, Democrat Illinois, to have switched from supporting the bill in November to opposing the Senate version.
Now, our Curry's vote's not going to hurt the bill's chances in committee.
The Democrats have a 9-4 advantage in getting the slaughter thing passed.
But it does matter on the four.
So, while all is epic-go-looking, let's get the balloons in the air and let's start singing songs and so forth.
We got the CBO number.
They lost a Democrat today.
They lost a Democrat who was voting yes, decided to switch to no from the Politico, confirming, ladies and gentlemen, everything.
And I have been saying President Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room.
Resonated.
One caucus member told Politico Obama won him over by essentially saying the fate of his presidency hinged on the health reform vote in the House.
The member requested anonymity.
He likened Obama's remarks to an earlier meeting with progressives when the president said a victory was necessary to keep him strong for the next three years of his term.
And yet it was only yesterday, last night, that Obama lied to Brett Baer.
I'm still waiting for somebody on Obama's side of this to call me and tell me one thing he said about this health care bill.
It's true.
Just one thing he said is true.
He's lying through his teeth about this.
And he doesn't even care.
Sometimes he can't help lying because he doesn't know what's in it.
A journalist, Brett Baer, knew more about what's in Obama's health care proposal.
And by the way, Obama does not have a proposal.
He kept talking about last night his proposal.
He didn't have one.
They're putting it together in the House.
He doesn't know what's in it.
He doesn't care.
A journalist knows more about what's going to happen here than Obama does.
Yeah, they're saying, oh, of course, Russia Obama's a big picture guy.
He can't be sidetracked and distracted by minutia.
It ain't minutia.
So it's all about Obama.
Politico again.
Pelosi's biggest test.
As President Obama left a St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the Capitol on Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi walked beside him, speaking softly.
When the two came upon a Democrat who hasn't committed to voting yes, Pelosi would tell Obama we could use help on this one.
We're counting on you.
What is this?
A dictatorship?
We got the media reporting on how well the Speaker of the House does in this.
What about telling us about the underlying foundation fraud, dangerous ruination to the country if this thing passes, Politico?
Why don't you go in there and roll your sleeves up and find out just what a disaster this is for the very country you live in?
Instead of focusing on, wow, could Pelosi get this done?
Can Obama get this done?
Oh, another no vote, ladies and gentlemen.
Stephen Lynch, one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's floor whips, Stephen Lynch, says a proposed parliamentary move to pass health care reform would be disingenuous and harm the credibility of Congress in a sign of how tough it's been for Pelosi to round up votes for the massive bill and boo-hoo about that.
Stephen Lynch, South Boston Democrat who supported the House reform package last year, said he will probably vote against a key Senate version of the legislation unless unexpected major changes are made.
This is one of Pelosi's vote counters.
And this is news from today, too.
Here's two new no votes that we can tell you amidst all of this euphoria and fanfare over the CBO number.
By the way, the phone lines in Washington continue to melt.
I don't even think I have to give the phone numbers out, but get them for me, put them up in a box somewhere because I didn't keep the page from yesterday because we're going to keep hyping the numbers because it's working.
Here is CBS News this morning on the early show.
The correspondent Nancy Cordis.
Members are getting so many calls from constituents on both sides that House phone lines have been overloaded.
We couldn't get through to anyone.
We couldn't get through to anyone.
Oh, they're really hearing from both sides, right?
They may be by now, actually.
Once the fruitcake left understands the success we've had in bombarding the phone system, they're probably trying to get in on the act, too.
Join us.
Hey, go ahead and call.
As many of you people on the left, here's one number, 877-762-8762.
That's toll-free.
The other is 202-224-3121.
We welcome all calls.
We welcome anything.
It'll shut the place down.
Go for it.
Here is state-controlled media.
Outraged.
This is a montage.
Outraged by the Brett Baer interview with Obama last night on Fox.
Giving an interview to his least favorite network, Fox News.
A contentious interview with Fox News.
A very contentious interview.
The Fox News interview with President Obama.
Definitely not interruption-free.
The broadcast world is buzzing today over a contentious interview Obama had with Fox.
A very combative interview with Fox News.
Wow, what a contentious interview on Fox News last night.
He went into hostile territory.
The host interrupted him.
Most news organizations tend to defer to the office of the president and matters of conversational decorum.
Most journalists, when they get a chance to ask the man at the top, ask him questions to which we all want answers.
For the first time in a year, our young man-child president was challenged.
For the first time in a year, these guys that you just heard in this montage ought to be profoundly professionally embarrassed and chagrined.
These guys got a lesson in how journalism is supposed to happen.
You remember Sam Donaldson interrupting President Reagan, being applauded by the press corps, presidential interviews you're not supposed to interrupt.
How about the way rather interrupted Dick Nixon and how the media cheered?
And how about how the press always ganged up and lined up on George W. Bush?
Do you think you need to say you're sorry?
Do you think you need to say you've made mistakes?
So we have one legitimate interview of the president of the United States in a year, and the state-controlled media can't handle it.
They just had their lunch handed to them.
Here is, there's a lot of things in the Brett Baer interview to highlight.
But I think this, and it's tough to pick one, but I had to pick one this next is my favorite.
Brett Baer, early on in the interview, said, Mr. President, I get 18,000 emails here.
I asked our listeners, our viewers, to submit questions.
We had 18,000, Mr. President.
And here's one, Lee Johnson from Spring Valley, California.
If the bill is so good for all of us, why all the intimidation, arm twisting, CD deals, and parliamentary trickery necessary to pass a bill when you have an overwhelming majority in both House and Senate?
A great question that not one journalist can see fit to ask him.
Brett Baer did.
And Obama, you should have seen his face.
Had this, he's bobbing his head up and down and smiling and so forth because what Baer was doing here was turning a favorite Obama tactic around on him.
He read another email, Sandy Moody in Chesterfield, Missouri.
If the health care bill is so wonderful, why do you have to bribe Congress to pass it?
Here's Obama's answer.
Brett, I get 40,000 letters or emails a day.
I know you.
And I could read the exact same emails.
It's not just Washington funded.
No, listen, I've got exactly the same emails that I could show you that talk about why haven't we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good of a deal as members of Congress are getting and don't have my insurance rates jacked up 40%.
Why is it that I, a mother with a child with a pre-existing condition, still can't get insurance?
So the issue that I'm concerned about is whether or not we're fixing a broken system.
So refused to answer the question.
I watched this thing in stunned disbelief.
I have never seen Obama as rattled, as uncool, as uncalm, as uncollected, as uninformed.
He was stuttering.
He was trying to filibuster.
He was a couple of, let me finish, let me finish.
You're nothing but a student.
I'm the professor here.
You don't know anything.
That's the attitude that he had.
But what's great about this is that Brett Baer turned one of Obama's favorite tactics around on him.
The sympathy play.
Oh, I've gotten all these emails.
Obama talks about all these letters he gets and all these emails.
And Brett Baer, you know, I got 18,000 here.
And Obama, like a petulant, competitive, well, I get 40.
I get 40,000 a day.
I get 40,000.
Screw your 18, I get 40, then I'm not going to answer anything that your 18 said.
I'm going to go ahead and stay on message.
But Brett Baer kept boring in on this, on the process aspect of it.
And Obama clearly didn't want to talk about it because he doesn't care.
The end justifies the means.
We got more of this.
Your phone calls as well coming up as we continue here on the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB network.
Now, another thing about these emails, the one thing about these emails, Brett Baer had his with him.
We saw them.
We never see Obama's emails.
We just hear about him.
He just says, I'm getting emails from small businessmen.
Who the hell are they?
What small business person is emailing Obama with a genuine, if a small business person's emailing Obama, he's got a damn you in front of it instead of a dear president.
Stop screwing me.
No small business in his right mind is writing a letter begging Obama to do anything but stop what he's doing.
And I'll tell you something else.
I'll tell you something else about this.
These emails that Obama is getting are generated.
Remember the name Ellie Light?
This woman that was getting letters to the editor printed in papers all over the country is a machine.
There's a computer out there generating all these emails.
It's probably coming from his own website.
It's all fraudulent.
Look at these people are liberals, socialists.
They're frauds.
They lie.
There's nothing genuine about Obama.
Zip Zero Nada.
Everybody's asking me, why do you think he went on Fox?
I'll tell you why he went on Fox.
The Cartoon Network has a larger audience than CNN or MSNBC.
In the cable TV universe, the cartoon network is number 13.
MSNBC is 26 and CNN's 32.
Fox is number two behind USA Today.
So the cartoon network has more viewers than CNN or MSNBC probably combined.
That's why it goes on Fox.
That's the only place the audience exists.
Now, Pelosi, continuing this fraud sham here of the CBO numbers, a little press conference to talk about the numbers out there.
And here's the first of two sunbites we have.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Well, a number is worth a lot, too.
I love numbers.
And today, the number from the Congressional Budget Office that this health insurance reform legislation will save $138 billion in the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years speaks very eloquently to the deficit reduction that is in our package.
What is she on?
Did you hear the way she sounded there?
Very hoarse and tentative.
Madam Pelosi, your days of getting away with this kind of trickery are over.
We have the CBO report ourselves, and it says all of this is a preliminary estimate.
You don't love numbers because you don't have any.
You don't have the votes.
You don't have an accurate CBO number.
You got nothing, Ms. Pelosi.
You got nothing right now.
You don't even have a bill.
She doesn't even have a reconciliation bill.
I love numbers.
And today, the number from the Congressional Budget Office is a sham, not because of them, but because of Pelosi.
There's nothing to score.
It's an estimate.
And of course, what Democrat press conference would be complete without a parade of victims.
I'm very pleased that we're joined by Ed Morris, Kim Medoltsky, Stella Johnson, and Carolyn Como.
Their personal stories tell the eloquent story of why health care is needed to make America healthier, to lower costs for America's family's budget while we lower the cost to the federal budget.
See, this is where they're losing ground because people know that none of that's going to happen.
We're not going to lose.
We're not going to reduce deficits.
We're not going to reduce spending.
And you know something else?
I, you know, we hear Pelosi and the Democrats talking about these numbers.
$940 billion, $1.2 trillion.
Do you know what they can't tell us?
What's my insurance premium going to be next year after this passes?
In relation to what it is now.
When Ronaldus Magnus went out there, started talking about tax cuts in the 80s, there was a workable number everybody knew that would apply to them.
If their taxes got cut by 10, 15%, they knew what that meant.
It was there.
Nobody, nobody on the Democrat side can tell anybody what their insurance premium is going to be the year after this thing goes into law.
And that's what people want to know.
Now they're giving us hints.
Dick Durbin's out there saying, oh, anybody thinks these premiums are going to go down?
I said, no, I think not looking at this honestly, we hope to reduce the rate of increase.
But health care premiums going up.
That's why they're not telling us what it is because it's not going to be what they say.
And I got email.
These are challenging days for your host because, you know, I'm working on prep to coordinate my own thoughts, and I'm getting drowned in emails to everybody wants me to tell their thoughts.
Oh, Rush, yes, it's real email.
You know what I mean?
If I put a couple of them on the website, I've got about 15,000 of them in the last week.
Rush, what you need to be saying is, we're going in the wrong direction.
Well, you need to focus on X, Y, and Z.
And guess what?
New open.
You're open to program the wrong way.
You need to do this.
Somebody said, you just went past the CBO numbers too fast.
You said they don't matter.
I said, they don't matter in terms of reality.
What matters is it's part of a piece of a puzzle, and it's just, it's the latest piece of a fraud.
But okay, if you want a specific reaction to the CBO number of 940 billion, even though it means nothing, I'll tell you.
We're supposed to be applauding this number.
Really?
This is same president who has run up tens of trillions of dollars in deficits in record time.
He has destroyed the private sector economy.
And we're supposed to be excited that a phony number comes in after a two-day delay that's just $60 billion, magically short of the $1 trillion figure?
What has this president said that's been correct or truthful through this entire process or during his entire presidency?
There's more mad job news out there today, folks.
And the economic news continues to be bad.
People are upset.
The nation's being laughed at by our enemies.
We're trashing our allies.
What's to celebrate with this number?
What's to celebrate with this guy?
He's wrong about everything.
He's screwing up everything.
And now we're going to say, okay, well, you've shown us what a failure and liar you are.
We're now going to confer on you the power to destroy the health care system.
Is that what we're going to do?
And Pelosi, one of the most hateful and foolish people who ever served as speaker, she didn't have a single thoughtful idea or policy.
I don't care what number the CBO puts out.
The Democrats involved, it's a fraud.
It's a sham.
It's a scam.
Now, all of you on hold on the phones out there, be patient.
You're there because Snerdley has deemed, i.e. pretended, that you're good.
We're going to get to you as quickly as possible.
Oh, the media doesn't like this process, huh?
Well, it seems to me they love reporting on the process when it's a story about Obama and Pelosi twisting people's arms or taking them on an airplane or something.
Quick timeout, folks.
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